Valve is putting a hefty push behind the new Vulkan API, but the stakes are higher than they’ve been in past years. This time, the premiere PC game distribution platform is gearing up to take on Microsoft and its Windows Store.

ARM announced a new CPU, GPU, and interconnect today — all products that will form the backbone of its high-performance hardware in 2016 and beyond. The new chip is a 64-bit processor with an expected clock speed of 3GHz or higher built on TSMC’s 16nm FF+ process.

SanDisk had planned to build a major business around its ULLtra DIMM technology but a recent ruling from US courts have killed that momentum. The company will now face trial for allegations that it stole its critical designs from a rival firm after signing a license agreement to jointly develop products.

Next week, at CES 2015, LG will introduce what it calls the world’s first ultra-wide (21:9) gaming monitor with AMD’s FreeSync technology — AMD’s alternative to Nvidia’s proprietary and expensive G-Sync. I say ‘world’s first,’ but considering LG hasn’t yet released the monitor, nor given us an expected release date or price, that seems a little bit rich.

Nvidia is rumored to be prepping a new graphics card release — probably the GTX 960 — and bringing the Maxwell GPU to the mainstream market in the process. Discussions on what the card actually is, however, are currently confused.

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